Is it me or is OWB a jerkass? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:25 am

So, I 9/10 ignore OWB because I quite simply hate playing through that overdrawn out fetchquest, however I played it this playthrough just to spice it up and regretted it. Playing that DLC bloats your save like no freaking tomorrow. I only got to play Dead Money and Old World Blues because of it whereas when I ignore it, I can play Dead Money, Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road with my save reaching nowhere NEAR as much woe inducing bloating as this DLC causes. Am I alone in this? It's like the Point Lookout of this game.

» Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:56 am

Ahh, I seem to remember posting about how you want to avoid doing all the DLCs on one character on the PS3, and you told me that I was not telling the truth......

It's in the New to Fallout thread in NVCHS.

» Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:17 am

Yeah, but I never play OWB so I disregard it. If you're playing OWB you'll only be able to play one other DLC as you said in that thread. So I think it's safe to say I won't be using OWB. It has nothing of use to me as the ONLY item of use to me in that DLC is the hazmat suit like the Ghost People wear, but the other DLCs are far better than OWB to me. Plus I never play an energy weapons character so I need none of the garbage guns out of OWB. I just find it frustrating that one DLC is so obnoxious technically speaking.

» Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:26 am

I actually like OWB. It's Dead Money that I can't stand. I even use a mod that completes that DLC as soon as I walk in there.

I just finished OWB again yesterday, but I still have to take on the Legendary Bloatfly. But, I am playing a quest mod right now so not sure when I will get back. I will have to look at my save file size pre and post OWB to see how large it got, and this time I went through everything, did not play a tidy game at all.

» Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:48 pm

That's what bothers me. I play through DM, HH and LR and complete pretty much every quest thrown my way and collect a literal museum of rare or odd goods in the presidential suite and collect maybe around 7-8k save by the end. But I was actually playing tidier than normal and ended up with an almost 9k save (It was 8.6-7k) so OWB REALLY screwed me over.

» Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:29 pm

I honestly skip this one too, it has little replay value for me and I don't really like anything that comes with the DLC.

No idea what bloat is, never and problems on my 360.

» Tue Oct 15, 2013 3:20 am

Daaaaddy, what is a "jerk ass"?

OWB rant:

Spoiler

Anyway, yeah I think that OWB is worse than MZ actually.

Boring color palette, overused old textures and models, disgusting blue tint, repetitive bullet sponge enemies, neon all over the damn place, fetch quests, repetitive toilet humor, barely any RPG design, overly focused on combat and the entire thing feels like a bad fan service to everyone who wanted stronger enemies, more things to explore, more lulzy humor and a kickass new home. I can't believe that Obsidian even released this garbage. The only good parts of the DLC was the parts that referenced 'other' DLC's (Christine and Ulysses holotapes) and Mobius.

Thing is, that underneath all the lulzy crap there is actually some dark goodness (chinese prison camp for example), it's just too bad that you have to dig past all the humor, all the enemies, all the fetch quests and all the horrible blue tint and boring colors to get to it, and I don't exactly like digging through crap to find a measly nugget of gold.

Oh and another thing I haven't mentioned before, it just feels like a pointless DLC to explore in, it's kind of like LSR in that way that there are loot caches everywhere to the point where you stumble upon one every 15 meters. A loot cache, even if it's just AID items or ammo, should feel like a reward when you find it, but in the DLC there are loot sprawling out of the ~~woodworks~~ pipes.

So exploration feels pointless, the storyline is convoluted, the characters get extremely annoying, the quest design is pathetic, the colors are extremely boring, the blue tint and neon colors gets sickening after a while, there is too many loot caches to the point where I even avoid them, there are bullet sponge enemies that respawns eerily fast, The Sink is first and foremost annoying and secondly it's pure fan service where the devs just crammed as many "cool" ideas into a player house as they could and the atmosphere of the DLC feels empty.

I absolutely hate it with all my heart.

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Hm, didn't see that this was in Playstation issues until after I posted..

» Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:56 am

It's when it dramatically expands the file size of your playthrough. After I beat OWB it literally jumped about 1,000 Kilobytes. ( I keep a track of the size of my playthrough file size. I try and wrap up a character around 8,000 KB.

» Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:29 pm

I like OWB but it can be pain to go through multiple times. I just like the characters and dialogue.

EDIT: What the hell...? I just realized I'm in the playstation issues.